Example Sentences

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Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Masterdom means power, rule; to invocate Apollo's masterdom is therefore to invocate Apollo's power to assist the Friar in his undertaking.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Wayland looked at her and felt his masterdom going to those same winds; for the pace had painted her ivory cheeks, not rose color, but the deep flame of the wild flower.

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Brave men, good men, even sensible men there are of course in the land, but they are not strong enough for the times or for masterdom.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

He that's coming Must be provided for; and you shall put This night's great business into my dispatch, Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel